Ticket-holder.



PATENTED MAR. 24, 19012.

E. Z. WILKOSHESKY.

TICKET HOLDER. APPLIGATION FILED NOV. 8, 1907.

'Edm icnd EDMUND Z. WIL'KOSHES KY, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

TICKET-HOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented March 24, 1908.

Application filed November 8, 1907. Serial No. 401,248.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDMUND Z. VVILKOSHE- SKY, a citizen of the United States, residing at 1554 Fulton street, Chicago, in the county of Cook andv State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Ticket- Holders, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in ticket-holders, and is fully described and explained in this specification and shown in the accompanying drawing in which:

Figure 1 is a broken perspective view showing two mail receptacles each equipped with one of my improved ticket-holders; Fig. 2 is a view in side elevation of the ticketholder; Fig. 3, a front elevation of the same, and Fig. 4, a view in, sectional elevation of the holder taken at the line 4: on Fig. 3, and. viewed in the direction of the arrow.

It is a common practice in the postal department throughout the post offices of the country to have receptacles in one form or another and usually arranged in tiers into which registered mail-matter is thrown as it is assorted; the different receptacles being designed to receive registered mail for different destinations. When this mail matter is collected from the various receptacles, a separate bag or mail-pouch is used to receive the contents of each, and before sealing a bag, a ticket, upon which are designated the place of shipment and the destination is placed (usually in the hasp) and then sealed against removal. It is customary to deposit these tickets loosely and without order in the various receptacles and in the assortment of mail it is thrown upon them. This practice is objection able because it results in the soiling and mutilation of the tickets and frequently in their loss as they are liable to be taken from the receptacle in gathering the mass of mail therefrom for transfer to a bag, and either dropped on the floor or thrown in the pouch.

The object of my invention is to overcome these objections and this I accomplish by combining with the receptacle a ticketholder of novel construction adapting it to contain the tickets in an orderly manner and render them readily accessible for withdrawal one at a time as they are required for use.

Referring to the drawing, the case forming the ticket-holder comprises a rhomboidal side 10, from' which project at right-angles,

a topflange 11, a base-flange 12, and an endflange 13. The top and base-flanges are disposed in parallel oblique planes and together with the end-flange each is provided with an car 14 for the purpose of attaching the case to a side-wall 15 of a mail receptacle 16 which forms the outer side of the chamber 17 of the case. With the holder thus supported in downwardly inclined position. near the open end of the mail-receptacle the tickets 18 are placed within this chamber resting upon the baseflange 12, with their inner ends against the end-flange 13. The tickets are of the same length as the base-flange which latter affords a rigid support for them, but project beyond the receding forward edge 19 of the side 10 and also beyond the adjacent edge of the receptacle. A recess forming a fingenopenin 20 is provided in the forward upper end of the top-flange 11 to facilitate ready withdrawal of the uppermost ticket. 011 the lower end of the baseflange 12 is formed a slot 21 for the purpose of allowing dust, or the fibrous feather-edges which drop from the tickets and the like, to discharge from the case thereby avoiding their accumulation therein which would prevent the tickets from contacting the endflange 13 at this point and cause their outer ends to project from the case in an uneven manner. This slot 21 is preferably formed to extend at a right-angle to the end-flange 13 to afford a ledge for the under ticket in the pile to rest against at its inner end, and thus prevent it from curling through and protruding from the holder which would result if the slot were formed in a parallel plane to the end-flange 13.

In practice it has been found desirable to form the base-flange at an angle of approximately forty-five degrees, which angle permits a ticket to slide back by gravity to its place if by accident it is partially withdrawn. This angle also positions the ticket at a proper degree of inclination to be easily extracted from the case by placing the index finger upon the ticket and drawing it backward by which movement only a single ticket can be removed at one time, the opening 20 affords clearance for the finger in passing the top-flange 11 in grasping a ticket.

What I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. A ticket-holder comprising a casing consisting of a side having parallel oblique flanges extending laterally from opposite "i right-angle thereto, the opposite side of the casing being open whereby said casing is adapted to be secured in inclined position with its open side against an inner side of a mail-receptacle and cause its inner-end to extend vertically in said receptacle, for the purpose set forth.

3. A ticket-holder comprising a casing consisting of a side having parallel oblique flanges extending laterally from opposite edges and a perpendicular inner-end flange with an opening in the lower oblique flange near its inner end, said flanges extending at right-angles to the casing-side and being provided with ears and the opposite side of the casing being open, whereby said casing is adapted to be secured at said ears in inclined position with its open side against an inner side of a mail-receptacle and cause its innerend to extend vertically in said receptacle,

\ for the purpose set forth.

4. A ticket-holder comprising a casing consisting of a side having parallel oblique flanges extending laterally from opposite edges and a perpendicular inner-end flange,

7 said lower oblique flange projecting at its outer end beyond the adjacent edge of said casing-side, the opposite side of the casing being open, whereby said casing is adapted to be secured in inclined position with its open side against an inner side of a mail-receptacle and cause its inner end to extend vertically in said receptacle, for the purpose set forth.

5. A ticket-holder comprising a casing consisting of a side having parallel oblique flanges extending laterally from opposite edges and a perpendicular end-flange extending at a right-angle thereto, with a recess in the outer end of the upper oblique flange, said flanges extending at right-angles to the casing-side, and the opposite side of the casing being open and adapted to be secured in inclined position with its open side against an inner side of a mail-receptacle and cause its inner end to extend vertically in said receptacle, for the purpose set forth.

6. A ticket-holder comprising a casing consisting of a side having parallel oblique flanges extending laterally from opposite edges and a perpendicular end-flange, said flanges extending at right-angles to the casing-side and being provided with ears, with an opening in the lower oblique flange near its inner end and its outer end extending beyond the adjacent edge of said casing-side, the upper oblique flange being provided with a recess at its outer end, said casing being open at one side whereby it is adapted to be secured at said ears in inclined position with its open side against an inner side of a mailreceptacle and cause its inner-end to extend vertically in said receptacle, .for the purpose set forth.

EDMUND Z. WILKOSHESKY.

In presence of- CHAS. E. GAYLORD, RALPH A. SOHAEFER. 

